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24/10/2017
It is understood the court is to decide if refusing abortions in cases of sexual crime and fatal foetal abnormalities breached the European Convention on Human Rights.
The appeal, which is expected to last around three days, has been brought by NIHRC (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission).
Northern Ireland's abortion laws are much stricter than the rest of the UK; Britain's 1967 Abortion Act, which provided a legal defence for carrying abortions out in England, Scotland and Wales, was never extended to NI. Instead, abortion law in Northern Ireland is based on the Offences against the Person Act 1861, which made it an offence to terminate a pregnancy.
It was only in 1945 that an exception was added to allow abortion in order to preserve the life of the mother. Terminations are also allowed if continuing with the pregnancy will result in other serious physical or mental health effects.
The punishment for breaking the law remains life imprisonment.
(JP/LM)
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NI Abortion Case Heads To Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is to hear an appeal regarding Northern Ireland's abortion laws.It is understood the court is to decide if refusing abortions in cases of sexual crime and fatal foetal abnormalities breached the European Convention on Human Rights.
The appeal, which is expected to last around three days, has been brought by NIHRC (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission).
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Northern Ireland's abortion laws are much stricter than the rest of the UK; Britain's 1967 Abortion Act, which provided a legal defence for carrying abortions out in England, Scotland and Wales, was never extended to NI. Instead, abortion law in Northern Ireland is based on the Offences against the Person Act 1861, which made it an offence to terminate a pregnancy.
It was only in 1945 that an exception was added to allow abortion in order to preserve the life of the mother. Terminations are also allowed if continuing with the pregnancy will result in other serious physical or mental health effects.
The punishment for breaking the law remains life imprisonment.
(JP/LM)
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